Il primo libro di madrigali a 5 voci (Michelangelo Rossi)
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General information
Description: Michelangelo Rossi's first book of madrigals.
First printing: No prints on record; extant only in a variety of manuscripts copied from an unknown source c. 1650. The compositions were likely originally written sometime in the 1620s.
Publication date and place: ante 1650 – known only from manuscript copies.
Known manuscripts:
- University of California, Berkeley Music Library - MS 176
- Conservatoire de Musique de Quebec - Acquisition #12160 (also on microfilm in the New York Public Library)
- British Library - Add. MSS 30835-37
- Oxford, Bodleian Library - Tenbury MS 1160
Assorted individual works from the first book are also found in British Library Add. MS 31506 and R.M.24.h.11.
List of works
Works at CPDL
- No works at CPDL
External Resources
- Mann, Brian - The Madrigals of Michelangelo Rossi (partially available from Google Books)
- Free scores of his instrumental works, from IMSLP